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Attention: RHN Hosted will reach the end of its service life on July 31, 2017.
Customers will be required to migrate existing systems to Red Hat Subscription Management prior to this date.
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* Each NIS client can bind to different NIS servers, but can only be bound toone server at a time. To maintain its connection to a server, an NIS clientchecks connection to an active server every 20 seconds and once in a while triesto find the fastest available server. Previously, clients searched for thefastest server every minute, which sometimes caused heavy traffic and responsedelays. With this update, clients search for the fastest server every 15minutes, preventing this bug. (BZ#714028)

All users of ypbind are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixesthis bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released erratarelevant to your system have been applied.